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Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Doctor Who Vs. State of Play

This landmark political thriller (a co
production with Endor) written and
co-produced by Paul Abbott - was
 originally broadcast on both BBC1
and BBC4 in the spring of 2003.
 Directed by prospective Doctor Who
filmmaker David Yates, the drama
 won three BAFTA awards. A planned
 sequel remains unmade.
 The series was repeated on BBC4
from August 2004, then shown on
BBC America in 2005. Universal's
film version, starring Russell Crowe
and Helen Mirren, was released in
2009.
The six-part series is available to stream on U (formerly UKTV play)
it featured John Simm (pictured right as McCaffrey), his Life on Mars
co-star Philip Glenister, Tom Burke (Strike), Geraldine James, James
McAvoy, Kelly Macdonald, and these twenty-two Doctor Who cast and
crew connections:
  • David Morrissey (Collins, left) was Jackson Lake in The Next Doctor
  • Bill [Francis] Nighy (Best Actor BAFTA winner for his role as Foster) was Dr. Black in Vincent and the Doctor
  • Marc Warren (Foy) was Elton Pope in Love & Monsters
  • Rebekah Staton (Liz) was Jenny/Mother of Mine in Human Nature and The Family of Blood
  • Sean Gilder (DS Cheweski) and Greg Bennett (Constable) both starred in The Christmas Invasion, as the Sycorax Leader and Warrior respectively - Bennett was also Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
  • Nick Brimble (DCC Janson) voiced Shreeni for Exotron (2007), Kith for Max Warp (2008), Dudley Jackson for The Eternal Summer (2009), Olaf Eriksson for The Book of Kells (2010), and Commander Harlan for The Conscript (2017)
  • Anthony Flanagan (Man) was Orin Scannell in 42
  • Bruce Lawrence (Jack) was the Engineer in Voyage of the Damned
  • Michael Gould (Merrick) voiced Frederick Lindemann for The Oncoming Storm (2016)
  • Madeleine [Daly] Potter (Tate) voiced Lizzie Williams for Assassin in the Limelight (2008), Yoanna Rayluss for Cradle of the Snake (2010), and Lady Ferrril for Ferril's Folly (2011)
  • prolific Big Finish actor Aaron Neil (Paramedic) was Dunlop in The Magician's Apprentice, and Varun Singh in Class, then voiced Tir Ram for All-Consuming Fire, Sanukuma Master for The Rulers of the UniverseSurene Priest for The Boundless Sea (all 2015), Aramatz for The Very Dark Things, Stephano/Klossi/Trink/Setebos for Maker of Demons, David for UNIT: Silenced, Steven Godbold for Five Twenty-NineComputer for World Enough and Time, Mandrake for The Torchwood Archive (all 2016), Gorky Sax for The Year After I Died (2017), Gobran for The Poison of Peladon (2022), and Kujad Stak for The Ruins of Kaerula (2025)
  • Ian Hughes (Radiologist) was Knibbs in Empress of Mars
  • Chris Jarman (Sergeant) and Polly [Alexandra] Walker (Anne) both starred in The Movellan Grave (2017), as Chenek and Commander Narina - Jarman was also Dancer in The Curse of the Black Spot, then voiced Joel Sanders for Tempest, Kyphus for Planet of Dust (both 2019), Cardinal Rasmus for Time War 4 (2020), The War Doctor Begins 1 and War Room 1, the Pastor/Vesht/Gorn for Dalek Universe 1 (2021), and Patthos for Eclipse (2022)
  • Fred Pearson (Dad) was the Barista in The Bells of Saint John, whilst Thomas Elgood was location manager on that episode too
  • Christopher Obi (Journalist) was George in Closing Time
  • David Ryall (Coutts) voiced Carthok for Phantasmagoria (1999)
  • Lucy Allen (Passerby) was stunt performer on The Zygon Inversion
  • Paul Frift was also producer of In the Forest of the Night and Last Christmas
  • first assistant director Stephen Wolfenden was director of Nightmare in Silver

Sunday, 11 January 2026

Doctor Who Vs. The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 
Everybody
knows the name. Everybody knows
Sherlock Holmes - or thinks they do.
But few know the true story of Conan
 Doyle's remarkable life, fewer still the
extent to which Doy;e suppressed and
sanitised the pain of Holmes' birth.

Set between 1892 and the early 1900s, this
feature length drama for BBC2 was written
by David Pirie (see 'Murder Rooms'- it
explored the dark family past that drove
Conan Doyle (depicted by Douglas Henshall)
to create fiction's greatest detective, then
kill him off.
The genesis of Sherlock Holmes was recently
examined by Lucy Worsley in Killing Sherlock.
Originally shown in the summer of 2005, this BBC Scotland production was
repeated on Talking Pictures TV tonight - it featured Brian Cox (as Doyle's
mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell), Emily Blunt, SinĂ©ad Cusack, and these six Doctor
Who cast and crew connections:
  • Saskia Reeves (Louise) voiced Carmen Rega for Big Finish's Emissary of the Daleks (2019), then was both Maddelena Fagandini and Mary Wollstonecraft in Delia: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
  • Tim McInnerney (Selden/Sherlock here; Clay in The Red Headed League; Ferret in Fairy Tale; Sir Eustace in The Abominable Bride) was Klineman Halpern in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015), and the eponymous role for Puccini and the Doctor (2024)
  • Cox voiced the Ood Elder in The End of Time, then portrayed Sydney Newman in An Adventure in Space and Time
  • Anthony Calf (Walker here; Hodson in Fairy Tale) made his TV debut as Charles in The Visitation, was Colonel Godsacre in Empress of Mars, and voiced Lord Barset for Frozen Time (2007), and Cal for Zero Space (2018)
  • Derek Ritchie was also producer of The Doctor's MeditationUnder the LakeBefore the Flood, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived and Classfollowing script editing duties on The Time of the Doctor, Deep BreathInto the DalekThe Caretaker and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
  • ADR editor Nick Roberts was sound recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and StoneThe Vampires of VeniceCold Blood and The Lodger

Saturday, 30 August 2025

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 3

David Suchet (as the definitive Hercule Poirot), Hugh
Fraser, Philip Jackson, and Pauline Moran all returned
for eleven period crime dramas, first broadcast on ITV through the autumn and winter of 1990/91.
 The opening feature-length mystery was based on
the Queen of Crime's debut novel, written in 1916
and published in 1920. Five of the cases were based
on short stories from Poirot's Early Cases (issued in
1974), three derived from Poirot Investigates (1924),
 and two originated from The Adventure of the
Christmas Pudding (1960).
A repeat run of the third season concluded on ITV3
last night - it featured Peter Capaldi (pictured in
Wasps' Nest), and a total of forty-nine Doctor Who
cast and crew connections:

The Mysterious Affair At Styles (UK TX: September 16 1990)
  • Joanna McCallum (Evie here; Laura for A Murder is Announced, 1999; Mrs. Olivera for One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, 2004; Princess in Murder on the Orient Express, 2022) voiced the Bursar for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
  • David Savile (Summerhaye) was Lieutenant Jeremy Carstairs in The War Games, Professor Winser in The Claws of Axos, and Colonel Charles Crichton in The Five Doctors
  • Anthony Calf (Cavendish) was Charles in The Visitation, Colonel Godsacre in Empress of Mars, and voiced Lord Barset for Frozen Time (2007), and Cal for Zero Space (2018)
  • [Frank] Morris Perry (Wells) was Captain Dent in Colony in Space
  • Tim Munro (Mace) was Ainu in The Creature from the Pit, and Sigurd in Terminus
  • Tim Preece (Philips) was Codal in Planet of the Daleks, then voiced the President for He Jests at Scars (2003)
  • Donald Pelmear (Judge) was Professor Rubeish in The Time Warrior
  • Robert Vowles (Driver) was a Gundan in Warriors' Gate
  • David Rintoul [born Wilson] (Cavendish) voiced Lord Henry Balfour for The Phoenix Strain (2016), Professor Andus Renwick for The Helm of Awe (2017), Galla Posca for Escape from Kaldor (2018), Dr. Leon Jessel for Fever Island (2019), Roger Hodgkiss for Barrister to the Stars (2020), Kinade/Priest/Bishop for The Curse of Lady Macbeth (2021), Garron for The Ribos Inheritance, and Butler for The House that Hoxx Built (both 2022)
How Does Your Garden Grow? (UK TX: January 6 1991)
  • Elizabeth Waller was costume designer on The Robots of Death too
The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (UK TX: January 13)
  • David [John] Quilter (Shaw here; Laidlaw in The Crackler) was Greeves in The Unicorn and the Wasp
  • Christopher Owen (Purser) was an Earthling in Meglos
  • Jonathan Stratt (Passenger) was the Taxi Driver in Partners in Crime
  • Dallas Adams (Hood) was Professor Howard Foster in Planet of Fire
  • Edward Phillips (Seller) was Parisian in (episode 3 of) The Massacre, and Scientist [Bob Anders] in The Moonbase
  • Lizzie McInnerny (Nurse here; Alex in Philomel Cottage, 2002; Jenny in The ABC Murders, 2018) voiced Harriet Quilp for The Yes Men (2015)
The Plymouth Express (UK TX: January 20)
  • writer Rod Beacham made his TV acting debut as Corporal Lane in The Web of Fear
  • Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Carrington here; Champneys in The Manhood of Edward Robinson; Halliday in Sleeping Murder, 2006) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012)Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigold Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
  • Steven Mackintosh (Newsboy) was Gazak in Timelash
  • Leon Eagles (Manager) was Jabel in The Face of Evil
  • John Abbott (Detective) was Vince Hawkins in Horror of Fang Rock
  • Reg [George] Thomason (Doorman here; Club member in The Mystery of the Spanish Chest; Drinker in The Chocolate Box; Audience in Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan; Barristr in Witness for the Prosecution, 1982) was Resistance Man in Daleks' Invasion 2150 AD
Wasps' Nest (UK TX: January 27)
  • Julian Forsyth (Waiter) voiced Grei Potemic for Rewind (2022)
  • Hilary Tindall (Compere) played Marion Clements in The Curse of the Daleks
The Tragedy At Marsdon Manor (UK TX: February 3)
  • Ian McCulloch (Maltravers) was Nilson in Warriors of the Deep
  • Geraldine Alexander (Susan here; Gwenda in Sleeping Murder, 1987; Blanche for Absent in the Spring) was Areta in Vengeance on Varos
  • Ralph Watson (Danvers) was the Generator Scientist in The Underwater Menace, Captain Knight in The Web of Fear and The Web of Time (2019), Ettis in The Monster of Peladon, and Ben Travers in Horror of Fang Rock (1)
  • Hilary [Sophia] Sesta (Receptionist) was the Fortune Teller in Snakedance
The Double Clue (UK TX: February 10)
  • David [James] Bamber (Parker) was Captain Quell in Mummy on the Orient Express, and voiced Emperor Constantine for The Council of Nicaea (2005), and Colonel Ulrik/Whitmore for The Four Doctors (2010)
  • Mark Fletcher (Constable) was a Crewman in Earthshock
  • stuntman Martin Grace was a Thal in Dr. Who and the Daleks
  • for Jill Goldston (Waitress) see The Adventure of the Western Star
The Mystery of the Spanish Chest (UK TX: February 17)
  • Caroline Langrishe (Marguerite here; Sally in Dead Man's Folly, 1986) voiced Shira for The Burning Prince (2012), and Lady Farina/the Red Lady for Doom Coalition 1 (2015)
  • Pip [Dean] Torrens (Rich here; Cloade in Taken at the Flood; Noel Coward in 4.50 from Paddington) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, then voiced Charlie Gibbs for Eldrad Must Die! (2013), and Kenton for Break the Ice (2022)
  • Peter Copley (Burgoyne) was Dr. Warlock in Pyramids of Mars
  • Metin Yenal (Umpire) was Karl in Silver Nemesis
The Theft of the Royal Ruby (UK TX: February 24)
  • Frederick [William] Treves (Lacey here; Dr. Kennedy in Sleeping Murder, 1987) was Brotadac in Meglos
  • Gordon Reid (Shopkeeper here; Littledale for Sad Cypress, 1992) was Phillips in Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1)
  • [Patricia] Stephanie Cole (Mrs. Lacey here; Miss Casewell in The Mousetrap, 1968/9; Anna in Jane in Search of a Job; Ariadne Oliver for Hallowe'en PartyThe Pale Horse Cards on the Table) voiced Lady Marianna for The Abandoned (2014), and Narrator of Bessie Come Home
  • Iain Rattray (Waiter) was Habris in State of Decay
  • stuntman Jim Dowdall had uncredited roles in Day of the Daleks, Genesis of the DaleksGenesis of the Daleks and Frontios
The Affair at the Victory Ball (UK TX: March 3)
  • Andrew Burt (Ackeley here; Dr. Quimper in 4. 50 from Paddington, 1987) was Valgard in Terminus
  • Harry Van Engel (Engineer here; Juror in Witness for the Prosecution, 1982) was a Kaled Scientist in Genesis of the Daleks
  • stuntman Steve Whyment was an extra in The Keeper of Traken and Snakedance
The Mystery of the Hunter's Lodge (UK TX: March 10)
  • Roy Boyd (Stoddard) was Driscoll in The Hand of Fear
  • Bernard [Arthur Gordon] Horsfall (Pace) was Lemual Gulliver in The Mind Robber, Time Lord in The War Games, Taron in Planet of the Daleks, Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin, and voiced Arnold Baynes for Davros (2003)
  • Victoria Alcock (Ellie) was Angela in Planet of the Dead, then voiced Marion for Power Play, and Winnie O'Connor for The Lonely Clock (both 2012)
  • Raymond Trickitt (Cooke) was the Ancient Haemovore in The Curse of Fenric
  • Jim Norton (Havering) voiced Major Thomas Kennet for Scream of the Shalka

Thursday, 21 August 2025

Doctor Who Vs. The Monocled Mutineer

Shown over four consecutive Sunday nights from
August 31 to September 21 1986 to ten million
viewers on BBC1, this seminal work attracted
controversy from right-wing commentators, who again accused the BBC of left-wing bias.
The historical drama, written by Alan Bleasdale,
was adapted from the book (published in 1978) by
William Allison and John Fairley. The authors also
faced criticism from the Tory press.
The BBC had originally approached Bleasdale in
1981 to adapt the book, which dramatised the life
of British Army deserter Percy Toplis (1896-1920),
present at the Etaples mutiny of September 1917,
during the Great War.
The series was only repeated once by the BBC, in
1988. The VHS release of 1999 was followed by a
DVD version in 2007.
As part of the Corporation's commemoration of
the start of the First World War, Matthew Sweet
examined the impact of The Monocled Mutineer in
Free Thinking, broadcast on Radio 3 in April 2014.
The BAFTA winning drama (last repeated on Forces TV in 2017) featured
Best Actor nominee Paul McGann (pictured in his breakthrough role as
Toplis), and twenty-three other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
  • Penelope [Alice] Wilton (Lady Angela) was Harriet Jones MP in Aliens of London, World War ThreeThe Christmas Invasion and The Stolen Earth
  • Cherie [Mary] Lunghi (Dorothy) voiced Lady Adela Forster for Big Finish's The Emerald Tiger (2012)
  • Ron Donachie (Strachan) was a Steward in Tooth and Claw
  • Timothy [Lancaster] West (Thomson) voiced Kai Tobias for Phobos (2007), Ronald Turvey for Cuddlesome (2008), and Dr. Magnus Soames for House of Blue Fire (2011)
  • David Allister (Asser) was Stimson in The Leisure Hive, and Bruchner in Terror of the Vervoids
  • Philip McGough (Woodhall) was Sergeant [Graham] Calder in Resurrection of the Daleks
  • Richard [John] Ireson (Ritchie) was Axus in The Krotons, and Soldier in The Mind Robber
  • Noel [Philip] Coleman (Sir John) was General Smythe in The War Games
  • Malcolm Terris (Johnson) was Etnin in The Dominators, and the Co-Pilot in The Horns of Nimon
  • Eric Mason (Sgt. Major) was Green in The Mind of Evil, and CPO Smedley in The Sea Devils
  • Anthony Calf (Guinness) made his TV debut as Charles in The Visitation, was Colonel Godsacre in Empress of Marsand voiced Lord Barset for Frozen Time (2007), and Cal for Zero Space (2018)
  • [John] Anthony Carrick (Parry) was Captain Rossini in The Masque of Mandragora
  • Jim [Edward] Carter (Spencer) voiced Brother Bernard in The Book of Kells (2010)
  • John Owens (C.O.) was Thorpe in The Daemons
  • [Rosemary] Rowena Cooper (Miss Cruikshank) was Angela Price in The Sarah Jane Adventures: Lost in Time, then voiced La Concierge for The Demon of Paris (2010), Emily Shaw for The Last Post (2012) and The Cloisters of Terror (2015), Jean Bazemore for Jago & SonMother Superior for The Unbound Universe (both 2016) and Ruler of the Universe (2017), and Queen Victoria for The Victorian AgeThe Torchwood ArchiveJago & Litefoot Forever (2018) and Infidel Places (2022)
  • John Benfield [born Jonathan Edmund Fulford Turner] (Extra) voiced Don for Autumn (2007), and Captain Greeg for The Song of Megaptera (2010)
  • David Arlen [born Sydney Bough], Terry Paris, Timothy Block and Iestyn Jones were Warrior Guard in The Mutants, Wrestler in Four to Doomsday, Tanner in Black Orchid, and ISA crewman in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship respectively
  • Tariq Anwar was also the film editor on The Sun Makers and The Five Doctors
  • Matthew Kuipers was production manager on K9 & Company too
  • Graham Brown was also a SFX assistant on Resurrection of the Daleks and Attack of the Cybermen, uncredited VFX assistant on (part 4 of) Full Circle, The Five DoctorsThe Caves of Androzani (4) and Revelation of the Daleks (2), then VFX designer on The Curse of Fenric

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Doctor Who Vs. Agatha Christie's Poirot, Series 13

The thirteenth and final series of ITV's
acclaimed period crime drama concluded
with Curtain - based on the Queen of
Crime's last novel. Written in the early
1940's (but only published in 1975 just
before the author's death), Poirot's Last 
Case returned the detective and Captain
Hastings to Styles, the setting of the
writer's debut novel.
David Suchet reprised his definitive port-
rayal of Hercule Poirot, whilst Hugh Fraser (Hastings), Philip Jackson (Japp), Pauline
Moran (Miss Lemon), and Zoe Wanamaker
(Ariadne Oliver) all returned.
A repeat run of the five cases began on
ITV3 last night - the complete run featured
Shaun Dingwalland a total of forty-four
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

Elephants Can Remember
(TX: June 9 2013/Published 1972)
  • Iain [Alan Sutherland] Glen (Willoughby here; Redfern for Evil Under the Sun, 1998; Trotter in The Mousetrap, 2012) was Father Octavian in The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone
  • Annabel Mullion (Lady Ravenscroft) voiced Julia for Big Finish's The English Way of Death (2015)
  • Ferdinand Kingsley (Burton-Cox) was Captain Neville Catchlove in Empress of Mars
  • Adrian Lukis (Ravenscroft here; Kendal in A Caribbean Mystery, 1989) voiced Officer Bragg for Cobwebs (2010), Byzan for The Children of Seth (2011), Professor Jeffrey Broderick for Counter Measures 1 (2012), Harvey Marsh for The Justice of Jalxar, Sigmund Freud for Return of the Repressed (both 2013), and Ansillon for Blood of the Time Lords (2022)
  • Maxine Evans (Mrs. Buckle) voiced Renucha for Mother Tongue (2020), then was Lowri Palin in 73 Yards  
  • Sophie Holt (Extra) depicted actress Jackie Lane in An Adventure in Space and Time
  • for Danny Webb see The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
  • Stephanie Carey was also stunt performer on ten stories (from Voyage of the Damned to The Vanquishers)
  • for Marcus Catlin see Taken at the Flood
The Big Four (TX: October 23/Published 1927)
  • for writers Mark Gatiss and Ian Hallard see Series 11
  • Sarah Parish (Flossie here; Evie in Sleeping Murder, 2006) was the Empress of the Racnoss in The Runaway Bride
  • Peter Symonds (Whalley here; Hurstall in Towards Zero) was a Soldier in (part 3 of) Terror of the Zygons
  • Steven Pacey (Paynter) voiced Trevor for The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008), and was Narrator of BBC Audio's The Secret Invasion (2020) and The Kairos Ring (2021)
  • Teresa Banham (Diana) was the Prison Governor in The End of Time, then voiced Mrs. Bartholomew/Angelica for Jago and Litefoot 13 (2017)
  • James Carroll Jordan (Ryland) voiced Major Vincent Da Costa/Herger for Shield of the Jotunn (2015), and Charles Virgil McLean for The Gift (2016) 
  • Nicholas Burns (DI Meadows here; Britten in At Bertram's Hotel, 2007) was Lord Sutcliffe in Thin Ice
  • for David Yelland see Murder in the Mews
Dead Man's Folly (TX: October 30/Published 1956)
  • Martin Jarvis (Warburton here; Narrator of The Moving Finger, 2007 and Harley Quin, 2009-11; Hogg in The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, 2010) and Rosalind Ayres (Mrs. Warburton) both starred in Jubilee (2003) as Nigel and Miriam Rochester - Jarvis was also Hilio in The Web Planet, Butler in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and the Governor in Vengeance on Varos
  • Tom [John] Ellis (DI Bland) was Dr. Thomas Mulligan in Last of the Time Lords 
  • Sam [born Roger Michael] Kelly (Merdell) voiced Eugene Tacitus for The Holy Terror (2000), and Acheron for Return to the Web Planet (2007)
  • Sean [Carl] Pertwee (Stubbs here; Oglander in The King of Clubs; Griffith in The Moving Finger, 2006; DI Lejeune in The Pale Horse, 2020) made a cameo appearance in The Five(ish) Doctors
  • Rebecca [Louise] Front (Miss Brewis here; Marcia for The £199 Adventure; Narrator of The Man in the Brown Suit) was Colonel Walsh in The Zygon Invasion, and voiced Major Takol for The Mind's Eye (2007), Patricia Walton for The Jupiter Conjunction (2012), and Tara for Together in Electric Dreams (2022)
  • Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (DS Hoskins) voiced the Clocksmith for Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
  • Daniel Weyman TV (Legge) voiced Ragan Crezzen for The Butcher of Brisbane (2012)
  • Richard Dixon (Henden here; Rowlandson in A Murder is Announced, 2005; Cayman in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, 2022) voiced DI Alan Probert for The Dreams of Avarice (2022)
  • Francesca Zoutewelle (Hiker) voiced H-One/H-Two/Mission Captain for The Furies (2018)
  • Kevin Hudson (Policeman) was a Cyberman in thirteen episodes (from The Long Gamto Ascension of the Cybermen), Technician in Bad Wolf, Escort in New Earth, Delivery Man in The Idiot's Lantern, Ood in The Satan Pit, Planet of the Ood and The End of Time, Surgeon in Smith and Jones, Pigman in Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks, UNIT Soldier in Last of the Time Lords and The Day of the Doctor, Dalek in The Magician's Apprentice, and Apple Bill in The Witchfinders
The Labours of Hercules (TX: November 6/Published 1947)
  • Morven Christie (Elsie here; Kirsten in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018) was O'Donnell in Under the Lake and Before the Flood
  • Simon [Phillip Hugh] Callow (Dr. Lutz here; Melchett in The Body in the Library, 2004; cast in The Hollow, 2020) was Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, and provided the voice of Tree Lorn Acre Blathereen in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Gift, then voiced Don Quixote for The Ingenious Gentlemen (2025)
  • Rupert Evans (Waring) voiced Jack Maddocks for The Forgotten Village (2014)
  • Stephen Frost (Chief Inspector) began his TV career as a Tharil in Warriors' Gate, then voiced Rondig/Pod for Saviour (2021)
  • Tom Chadbon (Dr. Burton) was Duggan in City of Death, and Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, then voiced Forrest for BBV Productions' Conduct Unbecoming (2000), Will Sullivan for Sarah Jane Smith (2006), Gordon Davidson for No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016)
  • Eleanor Tomlinson (Alice here; Mary in Ordeal by Innocence, 2018) was Eve in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Mad Woman in the Attic
  • Orla Brady (Countess) was Tasha Lem in The Time of the Doctor
  • Isobel Middleton (WPC) provided the voice of Almak for Demons of the Punjab
  • for Patrick Ryecart see Dumb Witness
    Curtain (TX: November 13)
    • Hettie Macdonald was also director of BlinkThe Doctor's MeditationThe Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar
    • John [Ronald Leon] Standing (Luttrell) voiced Fenric for Gods and Monsters (2012), and Professor Threadstone for Vampire of the Mind (2016)
    • Anne Reid (Daisy here; Sister Agnes in Nemesis, 2009) was Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenricand Florence Finnegan in Smith and Jones
    • Matthew McNulty (Allerton) was Adam Lang in Praxeus
    • Anna Madeley (Barbara here; Adele in A Pocket Full of Rye, 2008) voiced Laura Lyons for The Monstrous Menagerie (2014)
    • for Sean Clayton see Murder on the Links

    Tuesday, 10 June 2025

    Doctor Who On This Day #161

    1904 - Writer Geoffrey Orme born in Ilford
    1966 The Web Planet, Episode 3: Escape
    to Danger repeated on ABC
    1967 The Evil of the Daleks, Episode
    first screened on BBC1
    1968 - The Tenth Planet, Episode 3, The Power of the Daleks
    Episode 3, The HighlandersEpisode 1, The Underwater Menace,
    Episodes 1 and 3 and The Macra Terror, Episode 1 all repeated 
    on ABC
    1972 - The Time Monster, Episode
    first screened on BBC1
    1978 - Dr. Who and the Daleks screened on BBC1
    1980 The Invisible Enemy, Part 1 first screened on WTTW
    11; and UnderworldParts 1 and 2 both repeated on ABC
    1981 The Seeds of Doom, Part 2 repeated on KQED Plus
    1982 The Hand of Fear Omnibus repeated on ABC; and
    The Creature from the PitPart 4 repeated on KQED Plus
    1983 - Frontier in Space, Episodes 4 and 5 both
    repeated on ABC; Revenge of the Cybermen, Part
    3 first screened on KSPS; and The Brain of Morbius,
    Part 4 repeated on KQED Plus
     1985 The Sontaran Experiment
    Omnibus repeated on WTTW
     1986 The Mutants, Episode 3 repeated
    on ABC; Planet of the Daleks, Episode 4
    first screened on TV1; and The Visitation,
    Part 1 repeated on KQED Plus
    1987 Colony in Space, Episode 3 repeated on KQED
    Plus; and The Masque of Mandragora, Part 2 first
    screened on TV2
    1988 - Genesis of the Daleks, Part 5 first
    screened on TV3 (Spa); and KindaPart 2
    repeated on KQED Plus
    1989 Genesis of the Daleks, Part 4
    repeated on KQED Plus
    1990 The Daleks, Episode 7: The Rescue
     repeated on BSB; Horror of Fang Rock
    Omnibus repeated on KQED Plus; and 
    The Curse of FenricPart 4 first screened
    on RTL TV
    1991 - The Mysterious Planet Omnibus
    repeated on WTTW
    1992 The Three Doctors, Episode 1
    repeated on KQED Plus
    1993 The Mutants, Episode 6 repeated
    on UK Gold; and The Caves of Androzani,
    Part 4 repeated on ABC
    1994 Logopolis, Part 1 repeated
    on UK Gold
    1995 Paradise Towers Omnibus
    repeated on KQED Plus
    1996 The Aztecs Omnibus repeated
    on KQED Plus
    1997 The Three Doctors, Episode 1 repeated on UKTV 
    (Aus); and The Ark in Space, Part 3 repeated on UK Gold
    1998 The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Episode 6: Flashpoint 
    repeated on Space; and Terror of the Vervoids, Part 12 
    repeated on UKTV (Aus)
    1999 The Silurians, Episode 2 repeated on Space; and 
    The Invasion of Time, Part 2 repeated on UKTV (Aus)
    2000 The Seeds of Death Omnibus repeated on UKTV
     (Aus); Colony in Space, Episode 3 repeated on TG4;
    The Hand of Fear Omnibus repeated on Iowa PTV;
    The Face of Evil, Parts 3 and 4 both repeated on BBC
    America; The Invisible Enemy, Part 3 first screened 
    on Prairie PTV; and State of Decay, Part 2 repeated
    on BBC Prime
    2001 The Daleks Omnibus repeated on KBTC; 
    The Dalek Invasion of Earth Omnibus repeated
     on MPT; Pyramids of Mars, Part 2 repeated on
    WILL; The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Part 5 repeated 
    on KUED; The Invisible Enemy Omnibus repeated
    on UK Gold; The Androids of Tara, Part 1
    repeated on Twin Cities PTV; Planet of Fire, Parts 
    and 2 both repeated on MiND; and Battlefield,
    Part 1 repeated on WUSF
    2002 Image of the Fendahl, Part 4
    repeated on BBC Kids (Can)
    2003 Robot, Part 2 repeated on Tele 5;
    and The Android InvasionParts 3 and 4
    both repeated on BBC Kids (Can)
    2004 - Colony in Space, Episode 3
    repeated on ABC
    2006 - Rose first screened on Nederland
     3; The End of the World first screened on
    People+ Arts (LA) and repeated on ZtĂ©le;
    The Parting of the Ways first screened on
    Syfy (US); The Satan Pit first screened on
    BBC1; Doctor Who Confidential: Religion,
    Myths and Legends first screened on BBC3;
    and Totally Doctor Who (1.9) repeated on
    CBBC
    2007 - Rose first screened on KTWU and repeated on YLE
    TV2 and Idaho PTV; World War Three and Doctor Who
    Confidential: Why on Earth? both first screened on UNC-TV
    and repeated on MPTV; The Long Game first screened on
    KSPS and MPT; The Empty Child and Doctor Who Confid-
    ential: Special Effects both first screened on KERA and
    repeated on KQED Plus and Oregon PB; The Doctor
    Dances first screened on WJCT, WEDU and Panhandle
    PBS and repeated on KQED Plus; The Christmas
    InvasionNew Earth, Tooth and Claw, School Reunion, 
    The Girl in the FireplaceRise of the Cybermen, The 
    Age of Steel, The Idiot's LanternThe Impossible 
    Planet, The Satan PitLove & Monsters, Fear Her, 
    Army of Ghosts and Doomsday all repeated on UKTV 
    (Aus); Blink repeated on BBC3; Doctor Who 
    Confidential: The Dark Side first screened on MPT;
    Doctor Who Confidential: Weird Science first screened 
    on WJCT and WEDU and repeated on KQED Plus; and 
    Doctor Who Confidential Cutdown: New New Doctor,
    Fear FactorFriends ReunitedFrom Script to Screen
    CybermenFrom Zero to HeroThe Writer's Tale,
    You've Got the LookReligion, Myths and Legends
    The New World of Dr. WhoThe Fright StuffWelcome 
    to Torchwood and Finale all first screened on UKTV (Aus)
    2008 - Actor David Brierly died in England, aged 72; 
    Colony in SpaceEpisodes 5 and 6 both first screened
    on MTV3 SciFi and TV4; The Empty Child repeated on 
    SVT 24; The Satan Pit repeated on Prime; and Daleks'
    Invasion Earth 2150 AD screened on Syfy (Spa)
    2009 The Parting of the Ways and New Earth
    both repeated on Syfy (Rus); The Impossible
    Planet repeated on TV3 (RI); Partners in Crime
    first screened on Syfy (Ben); and The Doctor's
    Daughter and Doctor Who Confidential: Sins
    of the Fathers both repeated on BBC3
    2010 The Long Game first screened on Space;
    The Empty Child repeated on Syfy (FRG); The 
    Christmas Invasion repeated on Syfy (Spa);
    and The Next Doctor repeated on Syfy (Ben)
    2011 - Time Flight, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated
    on MTV3 SciFi, TV2 and TV4; The Family of Blood
    repeated on Watch; Turn Left repeated on Space;
    Vincent and the Doctor repeated on BBC America;
    and A Good Man Goes to War repeated on BBC3
     and BBC HD
    2012 Vengeance on Varos and The Mark of the Rani 
    Omnibuses both repeated on KBTC; Evolution of the
    Daleks repeated on Watch; Vincent and the Doctor 
    repeated on Idaho PTV; and Doctor Who Confidential 
    Cutdown: Sins of the Fathers repeated on UKTV (Aus)
    2013 The Idiot's LanternThe Impossible Planet,
    Love & Monsters, Fear Her and Army of Ghosts all
    repeated on Syfy (Port); Midnight and Doctor Who
    Confidential: The New World of Dr. Who both
    repeated on BBC Entertainment AP; Journey's End
    repeated on BBC Entertainment LA; The Vampires
    of Venice repeated on Watch; The Impossible
    Astronaut and Day of the Moon both repeated on
    Syfy (Spa); The Doctor's Wife first screened on
     YLE TV; and The Wedding of River Song repeated
    on Ztélé
    2014 Genesis of the Daleks, Part 2, Frontios,
    Part 3 and The Stolen Earth all repeated on Syfy
    (Aus); The Deadly Assassin, Parts 1 and 2 both
     first screened on Horror; The Christmas Invasion
    repeated on RAI4; Forest of the Dead and Midnight
    both repeated on Fox (FRG); The Beast Below repeated 
    on Syfy (Port); Cold Blood repeated on TV3 (Spa);
    The Lodger and The Pandorica Opens both repeated 
    on BBC America; The Almost People repeated on Syfy 
    (Ben); The Bells of Saint John repeated on Really
    Scary TV; Doctor Who Confidential: All About the 
    Girl repeated on BBC Nordic HD and BBC Polska 
    HD; and Doctor Who Confidential: Extra Time
    repeated on BBC Entertainment EU, Romania
    and ME
    2015 The Three DoctorsEpisodes 3 and 4 both 
    repeated on Horror; Statof Decay, Part 4 and
    Love & Monsters all  repeated on Syfy (Aus); 
    The Sun MakersParts 3 and 4 both repeated and 
    The Mysterious PlanetParts 1 and both first 
    screened, all on Retro TV; The Age of Steel first 
    screened on FX (Ind); The Doctor's Daughter
    repeated on TV Cultura; Turn Left repeated on
    ABC2; Planet of the Dead repeated on KLRU; 
    Victory of the Daleks and Doctor Who Confidential:
    Coming to America both repeated on BBC
    Entertainment AP; The God Complex repeated on 
    Jeem TV (ME); Dinosaurs on a Spaceship repeated 
    on Syfy (Ben); Town Called Mercy and The 
    Power of Three both repeated on BBC Nordic HD
     and BBC Polska HD; Flatline and Ithe Forest
    of the Night both repeated on DR3; and Death in
    Heaven repeated on RAI4
    2016 The Greatest Show in the GalaxyParts 
    1 and 2 both repeated on Retro TV; The Idiot's 
    Lantern repeated on Watch; The Runaway Bride 
    repeated on France 4; Human Nature and The 
    Family of Blood both repeated on EBRU; Planet 
    of the Ood repeated on BBC Polska HD; Victory 
    of the Daleks and Kill the Moon repeated on Syfy 
    (Aus); The Lodger repeated on TV Cultura; The Girl 
    Who Waited repeated on Space; The Doctor, the 
    Widow and the Wardrobe repeated on ABC2; 
    Nightmare in Silver repeated on BBC Entertainment 
    AP; and Robot of Sherwood repeated on YLE TV2
    2017 - Terror of the Autons, Episodes 3 and 4 and 
    The Claws of AxosEpisodes 1 and 2 all repeated on 
    Retro TV; Frontios Omnibus repeated on WYCC; 
    Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways both
    repeated on RAI4; Tooth and ClawSchool 
    Reunion and The Girl in the Fireplace all repeated 
    on Syfy (Aus); The Doctor, the Widow and the 
    Wardrobe, Part 2 (of 2), Asylum of the Daleks, 
    Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy
    and The Power of Three all repeated on FX (Ind);
    The Name of the Doctor and Night of the Doctor 
    both repeated on Syfy (LA); Flatline, In the 
    Forest of the Night and Dark Water all repeated on 
    BBC Entertainment EU; The Pilot, Smile, Thin Ice,
     Knock Knock, Oxygen and Extremis all repeated
    on Space; The Pyramid at the End of the World first 
    screened on DR3 and repeated on Space and Syfy
    (LA); The Lie of the Land repeated  on BBC2, Space, 
    Syfy (LA) and Syfy (Bra); Empress of Mars first 
    screened on BBC1, BBC HD and BBC First (ME); and 
    Paradise 5, Episode 1 first broadcast on Radio 4 Extra
    2018 - The Time Meddler Omnibus repeated on Idaho
    PTV; The Time MonsterEpisodes 3 to 6 all repeated
    on KBTC; The Three Doctors Omnibus repeated on
    KPTS; Mawdryn Undead, Parts 1 and 2 both repeated
    on Retro TV; Terminus Omnibus repeated on Iowa
    PTV; School ReunionThe Girl in the Fireplace and
    Rise of the Cybermen all 
    repeated on BBC Polska HD; The Impossible Planet, The
    Satan PitLove & Monsters and Fear Her all repeated on
    One ARD; Evolution of the DaleksThe Lazarus Experiment,
    42, Human NatureThe Family of Blood, Blink, Utopia and
     The Sound of Drums all repeated on W; Into the Dalek and
    Robot of Sherwood both repeated on Star World Premiere; 
    and The Witch's Familiar repeated on BBC Entertainment EU
    2019 Nightmare of EdenParts 3 and 4 both repeated on 
    Retro TV; The Age of Steel repeated on Syfy (Fra); The Big
    Bang and Christmas Carol both repeated on BBC Polska
    HD; The Crimson Horror and Nightmare in Silver both 
    repeated on Sony SciFi; The Woman Who Lived and The Zygon Invasion both repeated on Fox (FRG); and Oxygen
    and Extremis both repeated on BBC Entertainment ME
    2020 Planet of EvilParts 2 and 3 both repeated on Retro
    TV; Planet of the Ood and The Sontaran Stratagem both
    repeated on Sony SciFi; Amy's Choice repeated and Rosa
     first screened, both on BBC Turkey; Twice Upon a Time
    repeated on BBC Polska HD; and Demons of the Punjab
    and Kerblam! both repeated on RAI4
    2021 Four to DoomsdayParts 1
    and 2 both repeated on Retro TV;
    and Dark Water repeated on ABC2
    2022 - The Curse of the Black Spot
    repeated on Fox SciFi
    2024 Dalek repeated on ABC Family;
    and ABC Entertains
    2025 - The Husbands of River Song
    repeated on ABC
    Entertains